I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.